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The Agate Rule Tester (ART) is a tool that should help relieve some of the pain experienced by DT 5.5 WireSpeed users when 
building and testing wire agate translations.
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The existing methodology had the user inputting rules via SpeedManager, then reloading the service set in WireSpeed, dropping
a test file onto the drop folder, letting WireSpeed process the file, then checking for the results.  An incredibly tedious
and madding process for many reasons, some of which are:
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	<li>The DataCenter doesn't show hidden characters that may be interfering.</li>
	<li>The process is <strong>slow</strong>. Simple changes can take several attempts to get correct.</li>
	<li>You need physical or remote desktop access to the WireSpeed machine or run WireSpeed locally</li>
	<li>SpeedManager does not allow you to "disable" rules, only delete them</li>
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ART is designed to help make some of these issues either disappear or go away completely.  Initial testing and usage
by The Des Moines Register staff saw a "retry count" (the number of times WireSpeed needed reloaded to get a 
working translation) go from as high as 100 down to 1 and translation development time go from several hours to 20-30 minutes 
for some translations.
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I hope you find this tool helpful and pretty easy to use.  If you find bugs I'm not aware of (and there are a few, I'm sure) or wish
to see changes made, go to <a href = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/agateruletester">SourceForge</a> and either
post on the forums there your requests and issues or grab a copy of the source and fix it yourself.  Please keep in mind 
that The Des Moines Register <strong>cannot</strong> provide support for writing the actual translation nor can we guarantee that 
we will ever update this tool past the version with which you are currently working.  Please see the README file 
included with the distribution for license information and further limitations.
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		<a href = "base_translations.html">Creating Base Translations</a><br>
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